Implementation of Analytical Devices and the Interactive Social Fabric Matrix Website

Abstract

Analytical tools and techniques for the social fabric matrix (SFM) are introduced. A website is detailed which will allow collaborative work with researchers around the world. Associated with this is a tool to standardize the creation and editing of SFM displays. A tool to analyze and produce summary statistics for the special case of a symmetric common-denominator SFM is presented and detailed. Mathematical results from graph and matrix theory are employed. A prior result is presented and paired with a tool to enable automatic calculation of feedback potential within a system, and necessary caveats and limitations are laid out. A set of assumptions is laid out that allows the stability of a system to be determined using intermediate matrix theory, and the most restrictive assumption is relaxed.

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